In other cases, Israeli occupation soldiers have been filmed protecting and assisting settlers as they attack Palestinians.

While Israeli soldiers and settlers enjoy near-total impunity for violence against Palestinians, Israel has recently toughened penalties for Palestinians, including children, accused of throwing stones.

Note: An earlier version of this post stated that the incident in al-Tuwani occurred on 25 October, based on a caption in the video. However, Operation Dove has since confirmed to The Electronic Intifada that the incident occurred on 27 October and the date in the caption is an error.

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i was there 7 years ago walking with the kids from school and we were followed by a station wagon full of fun adults who are illegal squatters wanting to harass kids who were born here like their parents,grandparents,etc going back as far as you can go. So surreal. We instructed as CPT members not to escalate but to do this day i regret,especially after a scared 4 year kid put his hand in mind as we were walking. i should have turned and confronted that car ful of illegals and told them to fuck off...Alas, what it,what could have been will haunt me till the day i die...

I was there in March, with Christian Peacemaker Teams. I had been reading about this for years. But Israeli soldiers actually throwing stones at children? There's a technical term in psychology - it may be displacement - for blaming other people for your own faults.